The European Parliamentary Union (EPU) was a private organization set up by Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi , who was also its Secretary General. It held its preliminary conference on 4-5 July 1947 at Gstaad , Switzerland , and followed up with its first full conference of 8 to 12 September.
Kalergi’s love is to draft a European Constitution . The EPU asked some 4000 members of Parliament of 13 European countries to decide for or against a European Federation in the framework of the United Nations. The project was criticized by Denis de Rougemont and Duncan Sandys , his-in-law of Winston Churchill , founder of the European Movement , who advocated a model based on an intergovernmental co-operation without any loss of national sovereignty. The EPU played a prominent role in the Congress of the Hague , 7-10 May 1948. [1] Read More…